"The English moor" (Thomason E.1782[1])--and "The love-sick court" (E.1782[2]) have separate title pages, continuous pagination and register, and a final leaf of epilogue. "Covent Garden weeded" (E.1782[3]) and "The nevv academy" (E.1782[4]) have separate title pages, continuous register, separate pagination, and a final leaf of bookseller's advertisements. "Covent garden weeded" has title page which reads: "The weeding of the Covent-Garden". "The queen and concubine" (E.1782[5]) has its own title page, continuous pagination and register, and a final leaf of advertisements

"The queen and concubine" is dated 1659. "The English Moor" has two separate title pages, one dated 1659, the other 1658. The remainig plays are dated 1658

Signatures: [superscript pi]A⁸ a⁴ A-L⁸, ²[A]⁴ B-G⁸ h⁴ H-L⁸ M-O⁸, ³[A]² B-I⁸ K².

[Superscript pi]A1 and ²A1=blank(?); B3 missigned "A3."

Title page vignettes; head- and tailpieces

Edited by Alexander Brome

Bookseller's advertisements: leaf ²O8 (at end of "The nevv academy") and final leaf (³K2).

Errata on verso of ³K2.

See Greg for individual plays, p. 806-810

(From title page) The English Moor, or, The mock-marriage -- The love-sick court, or, The ambitious politique -- Covent Garden weeded [separate t. p.: The weeding of the Covent-Garden, or, The Middlesex-Justice of Peace] -- The nevv academy, or, The nevv exchange -- The queen and concubine

Boston Public Library. Barton collection catalogue

Wing (2nd ed., 1994)

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Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in early, mottled calfskin paneled in blind and rebacked in brown goatskin. Armorial bookplate of the Barton Library. Ink stamp of John Ker, 3rd Duke of Roxburghe on title page verso. Ownership inscription of Hugh Hughes on title page verso: "Hugh Hughes his book what it cost you may go luck." Two early autographs on ³K1 verso: "Mad'm Parry" and "Mary Davis, her hand, 1724." Leaves [superscript pi]A1 and ²A1 (both blank?) and ³K2 wanting.

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